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Prime Day Deals on zero-waste essentials

Inhabitat - Innovation

If you are shopping during this Prime Day, consider these top deals on zero-waste products to help you ditch plastic for good.

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Test Drive Results Lexus UX 250h Hybrid Electric Car

Green Living Guy

UX 250H: NEW-GENERATION LEXUS HYBRID DRIVE Expect in good weather a 50 MPG in ECO on highway and 35 in bad locations. Great fun also a sporty interior for this 2021 Lexus UX 250h! Featuring the Lexus Hybrid Drive powertrain, the… Read More Test Drive Results Lexus UX 250h Hybrid Electric Car. The post Test Drive Results Lexus UX 250h Hybrid Electric Car appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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What kind of work do we want to do? Is working with our hands passé?

Low Impact

There’s an approach to life that sees craft jobs, or smallholding and food production, including baking, brewing and beekeeping, as well as any kind of job that involves manual work and dexterity as somehow retrograde and passé, and that ‘work’ now means mainly putting on a suit and travelling to an office to do something-or-other in sectors such as finance, advertising, sales, fashion or PR.

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United Nations staff pension fund sets 2050 net zero target

Business Green

Fund announces it plans to reduce absolute greenhouse gas emissions by 29 per cent this year against 2019 levels. The £61.5bn United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) has outlined a range of climate targets it will look to meet as it transitions its investment portfolio to net zero emissions by 2050. In a statement late last week, the 130,000-member scheme said it was planning "to be more ambitious than the current net zero targets" with its timeline.

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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Environmental benefits or social — but rarely both — under RSPO, study shows

Eco-Business

Oil palm plantations certified under the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) can promote environmental benefits, but have a limited impact on rural development, a new study has found.

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Emerging trends in climate change legal disputes

Business Green

Businesses of all types have potential exposure to litigation for climate change-related harm - it is critical they understand this rapidly evolving landscape, argue White & Case's Mark Clarke and Gwen Wackwitz. In recent years, the number and scope of climate change-related actions has increased dramatically. Governments, industries and businesses of all types have potential exposure to such actions and must therefore consider their environmental impact and climate change commitments in order t

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Louisiana Says No To Biden’s Pause On New Oil & Gas Leases

CleanTechnica

President Biden suspended new oil and gas leases on federal land and water but U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty (LA) blocked the suspension. The judge also ordered that the delayed plans for lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska be resumed. The ruling came in a lawsuit that was filed back in March […].

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NHTSA: 38,680 Traffic Fatalities in 2020, Up 7.2% From 2019

CleanTechnica

Last month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released its early estimates of motor vehicle traffic fatalities that took place in 2020. It estimated that 38,680 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes — representing an estimated increase of around 7.2% compared to the 36,096 fatalities that were reported in 2019. The report includes […].

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NREL Announces Plans To Collaborate With Georgia Institute of Technology

CleanTechnica

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Georgia Institute of Technology have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to bolster the interactions, collaborations, and joint scientific output of both institutions. The purpose of the MOU is to leverage the expansive capabilities and infrastructure of both institutions in a multidisciplinary approach; […].

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Cold Climate Housing Research Center Completes Year 1 as NREL’s Subarctic Laboratory

CleanTechnica

By Molly Rettig In June 2020, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) expanded from its sunny campus in the foothills of Golden, Colorado, to the frozen tundra of Fairbanks, Alaska, by adding the Cold Climate Housing Research Center (CCHRC) to its team. “They brought 20 years of unrivaled experience in sustainable housing in extreme climates,” […].

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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India’s Acme Sells Stake In 250-Megawatt Solar Power Project To Foreign Investors

CleanTechnica

Acme Cleantech Solutions has reported another major equity sale deal for a large solar power project.

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Tata Group Commissions India’s Largest Solar Carport

CleanTechnica

Tata Group companies recently commissioned a new solar-powered carport which is India's largest to date.

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Indigenous Groups In Brazil Worry Covid Will Exacerbate Wildfire Smoke

CleanTechnica

Indigenous groups in Brazil are worried the health impacts of the inescapable smoke from the upcoming fire season will be even worse than normal as many struggle with the after-effects of COVID-19, Thomson Reuters reports. Climate change is making wildfires worse and a report from the Global Climate and Health Alliance finds exposure to wildfire smoke was […].

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A Look At Tesla’s Conflict Minerals Report

CleanTechnica

Last month, Tesla released its Conflict Mineral Report for the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2019, and emphasized the importance of sourcing only responsibly produced materials. “This means having safe and humane working conditions in our supply chain and ensuring that workers are treated with respect and dignity,” the company said in its SEC […].

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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The Save Our Future Act Offers Blueprint for Supporting Coal Workers & Communities

CleanTechnica

Originally published by Union of Concerned Scientists, The Equation. By Jeremy Richardson, Senior Energy Analyst Climate champs Senators Whitehouse and Schatz introduced a solutions-oriented bill today that would put a price on emissions of heat-trapping gases as well as criteria air pollutants and use the revenues to mitigate the impacts of the policy on consumers, workers, and communities. […].

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Coal Miner Turned Activist & Tesla Owner Is Sharing The Tesla Experience With Other Miners To Advance Tesla’s Mission

CleanTechnica

Coal Miners Driving Teslas may seem like an oxymoron at first, but in the case of this particular YouTube channel, it’s actually something pretty amazing. I came across the story of these two brothers while working on another article about GM’s plan to convince Australia to adopt EVs. The two brothers, Daniel and Tim Bleakley, […].

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Ford CEO On Mustang Mach-E vs. Tesla Model S Plaid Drag Race: “A Good Idea”

CleanTechnica

Oh, this would be fun and exciting to watch if this happened. Ford’s CEO, Jim Farley, agreed that having a drag race with Tesla is a good idea — the Mustang Mach-E vs the new Tesla Plaid Model S. Having been in the Model S Plaid and experiencing that acceleration — and, well, just looking […].

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The Fully Electric Future of Landscape Maintenance 

CleanTechnica

An Interview with Dan Mabe, founder of the American Green Zone Alliance.

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The Average Dealership In Connecticut Sold 1.3 EVs In 2020

CleanTechnica

Connecticut State Senator Will Haskell shared some interesting dealership facts on Twitter this week. Senator Haskell is pro-EV, anti-carbon emissions, and is pretty neutral on how the cars are sold. However, he stated that when 84% of the EVs in his state are bought directly from the manufacturer, it’s clear that customers have a preference. […].